Deuteronomy 26:1-3 New English Translation

Presentation of the Firstfruits

26 When^[a] you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it, ²you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he^[b] chooses to locate his name.^[c] ³You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your^[d] God that I have come into the land that the Lord^[e] promised^[f] to our ancestors^[g] to give us.”

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 26:1 tn Heb “and it will come to pass that.”
Deuteronomy 26:2 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
Deuteronomy 26:2 sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.
Deuteronomy 26:3 tc For the MT reading “your God,” certain LXX mss have “my God,” a contextually superior rendition followed by some English versions (e.g., NAB, NASB, TEV). Perhaps the text reflects dittography of the kaf (כ) at the end of the word with the following preposition כִּי (ki).
Deuteronomy 26:3 tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.
Deuteronomy 26:3 tn Heb “swore on oath.”
Deuteronomy 26:3 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).

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